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Congratulations to Erika L Garcia-Villatora for being selected as the
2017 recipient of the ASN Grand Prize for Young Minority
Investigators, sponsored by DSM Nutritional Products. Erika’s
presentation was entitled ‘The aryl hydrocarbon receptor is a
repressor of colorectal cancer development induced by a high-fat
diet in mice’. Ms Garcia-Villatora is advised by Dr Clinton
Allred, Texas A&M University.

If you live in North America, you can expect to see fireworks this
weekend as both Canadians and Americans will be celebrating. Several
years ago, my wife and I were flying across the US on July
4th and we could see fireworks below our plane as it
descended into Newark airport. We were awed by the contrasting
explosions of bright colors against the darkening skies below us. Our
visual acuity was aided by xanthophyll carotenoids concentrated in the
macula of the retina.

Based on double-digit growth in sales of organically produced goods,
you might think organic foods are healthier choices than conventional
foods. Especially given the price premiums for organic products (see
USDA Organic Market Overview). Baudry and colleagues investigated the
relationships between nutrition and health from 28,245 participants of
the NutriNet-Sante study using a semi-quantitative, organic frequent
food questionnaire (FFQ) with 264 foods items.

For each every food item consumed, participants were asked “How
often was the product of organic origin”?